Svaya Vara
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Women In Early Indian Buddhism
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Author : Alice Collett
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Women In Early Indian Buddhism written by Alice Collett and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Religion categories.
The path of practice as taught in ancient India by Gotama Buddha was open to both women and men. The texts of early Indian Buddhism show that women were lay followers of the Buddha and were also granted the right to ordain and become nuns. Certain women were known as influential teachers of men and women alike and considered experts in certain aspects of Gotama's dhamma. For this to occur in an ancient religion practiced within traditional societies is really quite extraordinary. This is apparent especially in light of the continued problems experienced by practitioners of many religions today involved in challenging instilled norms and practices and conferring the status of any high office upon women. In this collection, Alice Collett brings together a sampling of the plethora of Buddhist texts from early Indian Buddhism in which women figure centrally. It is true that there are negative conceptualizations of and attitudes towards women expressed in early Buddhist texts, but for so many texts concerning women to have been composed, collated and preserved is worthy of note. The simple fact that the Buddhist textual record names so many nuns and laywomen, and preserves biographies of them, attests to a relatively positive situation for women at that time. With the possible exception of the reverence accorded Egyptian queens, there is no textual record of named women from an ancient civilization that comes close to that of early Indian Buddhism. This volume offers comparative study of texts in five different languages - Gandhari, Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Sinhala. Each chapter is a study and translation, with some chapters focusing more on translation and some more on comparisons between parallel and similar texts, whilst others are more discursive and thematic.
Boundaries Dynamics And Construction Of Traditions In South Asia
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Author : Federico Squarcini
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011-12-15
Boundaries Dynamics And Construction Of Traditions In South Asia written by Federico Squarcini and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Religion categories.
‘Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South Asia’ explores the dynamic constructions and applications of the concept of ‘tradition’ that occurred within the South Asian context during the ancient and pre-colonial periods. This collection of essays features a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, and the aim of this volume is to offer a stimulating anthology of papers on the different and complex processes employed during the ‘invention’, construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.
Indic Manuscript Cultures Through The Ages
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Author : Vincenzo Vergiani
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-12-18
Indic Manuscript Cultures Through The Ages written by Vincenzo Vergiani and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-18 with Philosophy categories.
This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.
Mahabharata Now
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Author : Arindam Chakrabarti
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-19
Mahabharata Now written by Arindam Chakrabarti and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Philosophy categories.
The Mahabharata is at once an archive and a living text, a sourcebook complete by itself and an open text perennially under construction. Driving home this striking contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic, Mahabharata Now focuses on the issues of narration, aesthetics and ethics, as also their interlinkages. The cross-disciplinary essays in the volume imaginatively re-interpret the ‘timeless’ classic in the light of the pre-modern Indian narrative styles, poetics, aesthetic codes, and moral puzzles; the Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science; and the contemporary social, ethical and political concerns. The essays are all united in their effort to situate the Mahabharata in the context of here and now without violating the sanctity of the ‘written text’ as we have it today. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Indian and comparative philosophy, Indian and comparative literature, cultural studies, and history.
Ascetics And Brahmins
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Author : Patrick Olivelle
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011-12-15
Ascetics And Brahmins written by Patrick Olivelle and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Religion categories.
This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religious and cultural history of India, providing some of the most creative elements within Indian religions and philosophies. Most of the major religions, such as Buddhism and Jainism, and religious philosophies both within these new religions and in the Brahmanical tradition, were created by world-renouncing ascetics. Yet ascetical institutions and ideologies developed in a creative tension with other religious institutions that stressed the centrality of family, procreation and society. It is this tension that has articulated many of the central features of Indian religion and culture. The papers collected in this volume seek to locate Indian ascetical traditions within their historical, political and ideological contexts.
Language Texts And Society
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Author : Patrick Olivelle
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011-12-15
Language Texts And Society written by Patrick Olivelle and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Religion categories.
This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and developments hidden within words and texts. Words – and the cultural history represented by words – that scholars often take for granted as having a continuous and long history are often new and even neologisms, and thus provide important clues to cultural and religious innovations. Olivelle’s book on the Asramas, as well as the short pieces included in this volume, such as those on ananda and dharma, seek to see cultural innovation and historical changes within the changing semantic fields of key terms. Closer examination of numerous Sanskrit terms taken for granted as central to ‘Hinduism’ provide similar results. Indian texts have often been studied in the past as disincarnate realities providing information on an ahistorical and unchanging culture. This volume is a small contribution towards correcting that method of textual study.
Collected Essays 2
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Author : Patrick Olivelle
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2008
Collected Essays 2 written by Patrick Olivelle and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Hinduism categories.
Accessions List South Asia
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Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Accessions List South Asia written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with South Asia categories.
Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.
The Mahabharata Patriline
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Author : Simon Pearse Brodbeck
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
The Mahabharata Patriline written by Simon Pearse Brodbeck and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Religion categories.
The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book is a chronological survey of the Sanskrit Mahabharata's central royal patriline - a family tree that is also a list of kings. Brodbeck explores the importance and implications of patrilineal maintenance within the royal culture depicted by the text, and shows how patrilineal memory comes up against the fact that in every generation a wife must be involved, with the consequent danger that the children might not sustain the memorial tradition of their paternal family. The Mahabharata Patriline bridges a gap in text-critical methodology between the traditional philological approach and more recent trends in gender and literary theory. Studying the Mahabharata as an integral literary unit and as a story stretched over dozens of generations, this book casts particular light on the events of the more recent generations and suggests that the text's internal narrators are members of the family whose story they tell.
Accessions List India
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Author : American Libraries Book Procurement Center, New Delhi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Accessions List India written by American Libraries Book Procurement Center, New Delhi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with India categories.